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I had a chance to take an extended lunch yesterday and walked around a couple of NorCo lakes. At one lake I came across this victim of the winter, washed up, partially eviscerated, and dried on the lake shore.
She was about 21.5" long (perhaps longer if her tail wasn't partially broken) and even in her dried out and eviscerated state, had a girth of 16.5". Based on a couple of online calculators, she'd have weighed at least 6.3 lbs when she still swam upright and breathed. I'm now kicking myself 'cause I didn't have the presence of mind to pull a couple of scales to see how old she was.
I wonder how often my swimbaits went swimming by her? And I wonder where her big sisters are?

She was about 21.5" long (perhaps longer if her tail wasn't partially broken) and even in her dried out and eviscerated state, had a girth of 16.5". Based on a couple of online calculators, she'd have weighed at least 6.3 lbs when she still swam upright and breathed. I'm now kicking myself 'cause I didn't have the presence of mind to pull a couple of scales to see how old she was.
I wonder how often my swimbaits went swimming by her? And I wonder where her big sisters are?